1920 in baseball

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The following are the baseball events of the year 1920 throughout the world.

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Baseball
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See also
Baseball Major League Baseball Minor league baseball Negro league baseball Japanese baseball 1920 in sports
Sources
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Contents

1 Champions
2 Awards and honors
3 Awards and honors
4 MLB Statistical Leaders
5 Major League Baseball final standings

5.1 American League final standings
5.2 National League final standings

6 Events
7 Births
8 Deaths

Champions

World Series: Cleveland Indians over Brooklyn Robins (5-2)

Awards and honors

MLB Most Valuable Player Award
* None

MLB Statistical Leaders

American League National League
Type Name Stat Name Stat

AVG George Sisler .407 Rogers Hornsby .370
HR Babe Ruth 54 Cy Williams 15
RBI Babe Ruth 137 Rogers Hornsby & George Kelly 94
Wins Jim Bagby 31 Pete Alexander 27
ERA Bob Shawkey 2.45 Pete Alexander 1.91

Major League Baseball final standings

American League final standings

American League
Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
Cleveland Indians	98	56	.636	--
Chicago White Sox	96	58	.623	2
New York Yankees	95	59	.617	3
St. Louis Browns	76	77	.497	21.5
Boston Red Sox	72	81	.471	25.5
Washington Senators	68	84	.447	29
Detroit Tigers	61	93	.396	37
Philadelphia Athletics	48	106	.312	50

National League final standings

National League
Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
Brooklyn Robins	93	61	.604	--
New York Giants	86	68	.558	7
Cincinnati Reds	82	71	.536	10.5
Pittsburgh Pirates	79	75	.513	14
Chicago Cubs	75	79	.487	18
St. Louis Cardinals	75	79	.487	18
Boston Braves	62	90	.408	30
Philadelphia Phillies	62	91	.405	30.5

Events

May 1 - In a kind of game you don't see anymore, the Brooklyn Dodgers' Leon Cadore and the Boston Braves' Joe Oeschger pitched 26 innings in a 1-1 tie. A morning rain delayed the start of the game until 3:00 p.m. The Robins scored a run in the top of the fifth, a single by Ivy Olson driving in Ernie Krueger. The Braves tied it in the bottom of the sixth with a double by Walt Cruise and a single by Tony Boeckel. After that, no more scoring as both pitchers pitched the kind of game the likes of which it has never been seen again.

August 16 - Indians shortstop Ray Chapman is struck in the head by a pitch from the Yankees' Carl Mays in a game at the Polo Grounds. He dies twelve hours later from a fractured skull, making it the only fatal field accident in major league history.

Births

Deaths

August 17 - Ray Chapman, 29, shortstop for the Cleveland Indians since 1912 who batted .300 three times, led AL in runs and walks in 1918
September 11 - Bill Hallman, 53, second baseman, mainly with the Phillies, who batted .300 and scored 100 runs four times each

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